What band wrote the first-ever heavy metal riff? According to Zakk Wylde, that honor goes to the legendary English power trio Cream. In addition to Cream, Benante points to Queen for their influence ...

Nita Strauss has picked out the five guitar riffs that changed her life, which includes a Randy Rhoads classic and some more obscure heavy metal gems. The guitarist rose to fame as a hired gun, ...

Replacing Dave Mustaine as Metallica’s lead guitarist in 1983, Kirk Hammett cut his teeth on Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin. So it’s unsurprising that he lists Hendrix’s Band of Gypsys and Zeppelin’s ...

Outsiders might think heavy metal is all big scary riffs and songs about Satan and darkness and whatnot, but those in the know understand that some of music's biggest, soppiest, most spectacularly ...

Metallica‘s Kirk Hammett named one particular guitar riff that he believes “shifted heavy metal.” In anew feature with Consequence, the Metallica guitarist chose 11 albums that he thinks every ...

Heavy metal certainly had its origins prior to Black Sabbath's 1970 debut album – and more specifically, the intro riff to the opening song "Black Sabbath" – but the genre certainly came into form at ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. While there’s not much debate regarding which lineup of Black ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. As it relates to who should be considered heavy metal’s ...

Heavy metal has a rich history, filled to the brim with quality albums that have been delighting the headbanging masses of Planet Earth for decades. These are heavy metal albums that are ...